List of World Heritage Sites in Argentina
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage Sites are the places of important cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Argentina accepted the UNESCO World Heritage Convention on 23 August 1978, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list.
Argentina had its first site included on the list at the 5th session of World Heritage Committee, held in Sydney, Australia, in October 1981. At that session, "Los Glaciares National Park" was inscribed on the list., 2 elements have been inscribed on the Intangible cultural heritage and 11 sites have been inscribed on the World Heritage List: 6 cultural sites and 5 natural sites. A further 10 sites have been proposed for inscription and are on the tentative list.
World Heritage Sites
Name | Image | Location | Coordinates | Date of Inscription | Criteria | Description | ID | Ref |
Los Glaciares National Park | 1981 | Natural | . | 145 | ||||
Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor‡ | 1984 | Cultural | . | 291-002 291-003 291-004 291-005 | ||||
Iguazú National Park | 1984 | Natural | . | 303 | ||||
Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas | 1999 | Cultural | . | 936 | ||||
Península Valdés | 1999 | Natural | . | 937 | ||||
Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks | 2000 | Natural | . | 966 | ||||
Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba | 2000 | Cultural | . | 995-001 995-002 995-003 995-004 995-005 995-006 | ||||
Quebrada de Humahuaca | 2003 | Cultural | . | 1116 | ||||
Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System‡ | 2014 | Cultural | . | 1459-002 1459-003 1459-004 1459-005 1459-006 1459-007 1459-008 1459-009 1459-010 1459-011 1459-012 1459-013 | ||||
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement‡ | Buenos Aires Province | 2016 | Cultural | . | 1321-011 | |||
Los Alerces National Park | 2017 | Natural | . | 1526 |
Tentative list
In addition to the sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, member states can maintain a list of tentative sites that they may consider for nomination. Nominations for the World Heritage List are only accepted if the site was previously listed on the tentative list. As of 2017, Argentina recorded 6 sites on its tentative list.Name | Image | Location | Date of Submission | Criteria | Description | ID | Ref |
Valle Calchaquí | Cultural | 1582 | |||||
Sierra de las Quijadas National Park | Natural | 2021 | |||||
La Payunia, Campos Volcánicos Llancanelo y Payún Matrú | Natural | 5615 | |||||
Geological, Paleontological and Archaeological Provincial Reserve Pehuén Co–Monte Hermoso | Buenos Aires Province | Mixed | 5851 | ||||
Moisés Ville | Cultural | "In 1889, Moisés Ville, located in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, was the first rural Jewish settlement to be established in the country. The first population was a group of families coming from the Podolia region, now in Ukraine. Over the first half of the 20th Century, Moisés Ville became the most important Jewish village in Argentina and a centre of Jewish culture recognised at the international level; famous for its synagogues, theatre, Hebrew schools and academy, libraries and newspapers and magazines, in both Yiddish and Spanish. From the 1950s on, many descendants of the original settlers began leaving Moisés Ville, to seek higher education possibilities. Currently, the Jewish population in the village is some 10% of the total, but the testimonies to Jewish culture are present and alive, in both tangible and intangible components." | 6066 | ||||
ESMA Site Museum - Former Clandestine Centre of Detention, Torture, and Extermination | City of Buenos Aires | Cultural | "The current ESMA Site Museum building, with a surface area of and located on the property where the Navy School of Mechanics used to be, was inaugurated in 1946 as the Officers' Mess. The bedrooms of the highest-ranking officers in the Argentine Navy were in this building—an isolated pavilion rounded by gardens composed by a main building with three subordinated perpendicular blocks, with basements and a large attic. Between 1976 and 1983, during the last military dictatorship, ESMA premises was a fundamental part of the repressive scheme whose epicentre was in this building, where the Clandestine Centre of Detention, Torture, and Extermination operated. Here, the Navy kidnapped, tortured and disappeared more than 5,000 men and women. The serious human rights violations, the systematic plan to steal children born in captivity, and the extermination of prisoners who were thrown alive into the sea during the so-called "flights of death" make this building a symbol of the genocide that took place in our country. It is incontrovertible proof of the State terrorism that inflicted extreme criminal violence on society at large." | 6248 | |||
City of Tigre and its rowing clubs | Buenos Aires Province | Cultural | "The urban area of the city of Tigre next to the Tigre, Luján and Reconquista rivers constitutes an exceptional testimony to an urban settlement characterised by the presence of rivers and streams and with a tourism and sports vocation. The establishment of rowing clubs between the end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th by foreign communities that at that time arrived in Argentina made that Tigre reflected the cosmopolitan spirit of the country at that time. The architectural components that testify to the development of the city of Tigre as a tourism centre and, especially, as a place for the practice of rowing, encompass the clubs themselves, vacations villas built between the end of 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th, and also buildings related to the services and tourism facilities. As an ensemble, this group of buildings constitutes an exceptional testimony to the architectural eclecticism prevailing in the period, including expressions that span from Italian academicism to the Modern Movement of the 20th Century. This eclecticism is noticeable not only in residential architecture but also in the rowing clubs, where, besides English styles typical of this kind of installations in other regions of the world, there are expressions related to Italian, French, Spanish and modern trends, which contribute to the exceptionality of the architectural ensemble and of the resulting urban landscape." | 6288 | |||
Cueva de las Manos and associated sites of the Pinturas river basin | Cultural | "Cueva de las Manos shows the main display of hunting scenes styles between 9400 and 6400 years BP, among the rock art of Pinturas river basin which has a vast time extension, between 9400 and 2000 years BP, as a genuine expression of the hunter-gatherers that started to populate Patagonia since 12000 years BP. The Charcamata style, for its part, appears after 5400 BP, it dominates the regional scene and represents the greater iconographic display, over Cueva de las Manos that shows few examples of this style. This replication of the motifs on different sites such as El Puma 1, Cerro de los Indios, Cueva Grande del Arroyo Feo and Cueva de las Manos itself, shows the importance of Alero Charcamata as a node for the interpretation of rock art and for the territorial demarcation by these hunters in their seasonal nomadism, acquiring an exceptional value for the understanding of the regional rock art evolution, non the less because of the excellent preservation of their paintings." | 6297 | ||||
Buenos Aires – La Plata: Two capitals of the Culture of Modernity, Eclecticism and Immigration | City of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Province | Cultural | 6296 | ||||
Sanmartinian Routes | La Rioja | Mixed | "It is composed by six passes in the Andes, the South American mountain range, by which the Army of the Andes crossed in 1817 from Argentina to Chile to liberate that territory that was in possession of the absolutist Spanish Crown of the time. The Andes are crossed by precipices, with peaks above 4,000 meters high that had never been crossed by a force of such a size. The main column reached 4,536 meters of altitude. Besides the passes themselves, located on top of the Andes, the property includes the routes followed by the expedition through a chain of hills and mountains lying before the Andes range itself. It also includes the military camp of El Plumerillo, where the troops trained and concentrated, leading up to the outset of the expedition." | 6384 |
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Name | Image | Location | Date of Inscription | Description | Shared with | Ref |
Tango‡ | Rio de la Plata Basin | 2009 | ||||
Filete porteño in Buenos Aires, a traditional painting technique | City of Buenos Aires | 2015 |